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Armistice Agreements 



TERMS OF THE ARMISTICE AGREEMENTS CONCLUDED 
BETWEEN THE ALLIED AND ASSOCIATED GOV- 
ERNMENTS AND THE GOVERNMENTS OF 
GERMANY, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY 
AND BULGARIA 




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PRESENTED BY MR. LODGE 
October 30, 1919.— Ordered to be printed 



WASHINGTON 
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

1919 



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TERMS OF THE ARMISTICE AGREEMENTS CONCLUDED BE- 
TWEEiN THE ALLIED AND ASSOCIATED GOVERNMENTS AND 
THE GOVERNMENTS OF GERMANY, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY AND 
BULGARIA. 

Terms of Armistice With Germany, November 11, 1918. 

Between Marshal Foch, commander in chief of the allied armies, 
acting in the name of the allied and associated powers, with Admiral 
Wemyss, first sea lord, on the one hand, and Herr Erzberger, secre- 
tary of state, president of the German delegation, Count von Obern- 
dorff, envo}^ extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, Maj. Gen. 
von Winterfeldt, Capt. Vanselow (German navy), duly empowered 
and acting with the concurrence of the German chancellor, on the 
other hand. 

An armistice has been concluded on the following conditions : 

Conditions of the Armistice Concluded with Germany. 

(A.) CLAUSES RELATING TO THE WESTERN FRONT. 

I. Cessation of hostilities by land and in the air six hours after 
the signing of the armistice. 

II. Immediate evacuation of the invaded countries — Belgium, 
France, Luxemburg, as well as Alsace-Lorraine — so ordered as to 
be completed within 15 days from the signature of the armistice. 

German troops which have not left the above-mentioned territories 
within the period fixed shall be made prisoners of war. 

Occupation by the allied and United States forces jointly shall 
keep pace with the evacuation in these areas. 

All movements of evacuation and occupation shall be regulated in 
accordance with a note (Annexe 1) determined at the time of the 
signing of the armistice. 

III. Kepatriation, beginning at once, to be completed within 15 
days, of all inhabitants of the countries above enumerated (including 
hostages, persons under trial, or condemned). 

IV. Surrender in good condition by the German armies of the fol- 
lowing equipment: 5,000 guns (2,500 heavy, 2,500 field), 25,000 
machine guns, 3,000 trench mortars, 1.700 aeroplanes (fighters, 
bombers — firstly all D. 7's and night-bombing machines). 

The above to be delivered in situ to the allied and United States 
troops in accordance with the detailed conditions laid down in the 
note (Annexe 1) determined at the time of the signing of the armi- 
stice. 

V. Evacuation by the German armies of the districts on the left 
bank of the Ehine. These districts on the left bank of the Rhine shall 



4 ARMISTICE AGREEMENTS. 

be administered b.y the local authorities under the control of the 
allied and United States armies of occupation. 

The occupation of these territories by allied and United States 
troops shall be assured by (garrisons holding- the principal crossings 
of the Ehine (Mainz, Coblenz, Cologne), together with bridgeheads 
at these points of a 30-kilometer (about 19 miles) radius on the 
right bank, and by garrisons similarly holding the strategic points 
of the area. 

A neutral zone shall be reserved on the right bank of the Ehine, 
between the river and a line drawn parallel to the bridgeheads and 
to the river and 10 kilometers (6J miles) distant from them, between 
the Dutch frontier and the Swiss frontier. 

The evacuation by the enemy of the Rhine districts (right and 
left banks) shall be so ordered as to be completed within a further 
period of 16 days, in all 31 days after the signing of the armistice. 

All movements of evacuation and occupation shall be regulated 
according to the note (Annexe 1) determined at the time of the 
signing of the armistice. 

VI. In all territories evacuated by the enemy, evacuation of the 
inhabitants shall be forbidden; no damage or harm shall be done 
to the persons or property of the inhabitants. 

No person shall be prosecuted for having taken part in any mili- 
tary measures previous to the signing of the armistice. 

No destruction of any kind to lie committed. 

Military establishments of all kinds shall be delivered intact, as 
well as military stores, food, munitions, and equipment, which shall 
not have been removed during the periods fixed for evacuation. 

Stores of food of all kinds for the civil population, cattle, etc'., 
shall be left in situ. 

No measure of a general character shall be taken, and no official 
order shall be given which would have as a consequence the deprecia- 
tion of industrial establishments or a reduction of their personnel. 

VII. Roads and means of connnunications of every kind, rail- 
roads, waterways, roads, bridges, telegraphs, telephones, shall be in 
no manner impaired. 

All civil and military personnel at present employed on them 
shall remain. 

Five thousand locomotives and 150,000 wagons, in good working- 
order, with all necessary spare parts and fittings, shall be deliAered 
to the associated powers within the period fixed in Annexe No. 2 
(not exceeding 31 days in all). 

Five thousand motor lorries are also to be delivered in good con- 
dition within 36 days. 

The railways of Alsace-Lorraine shall be handed over within 31 
days, together with all personnel and material belonging to the 
organization of this system. 

Further, the necessary working material in the territories on the 
left bank of the Rhine shall be left in situ. 

AH stores of coal and material for the upkeep of permanent way, 
signals, and repair shops, shall be left in situ and kept in an efficient 
state by Germany, so far as the working of the means of communi- 
cation on the left bank of the Rhine is concerned. 

All lighters taken from the Allies shall be restored to them. 



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The note attached as Annexe 2 defines the details of these measures. 

VIII. The German command shall be responsible for revealing 
-vvithin 48 hours after the signing of the armistice all mines or 
delay-action fuzes disposed on territories evacuated by the German 
troops, and shall assist in their discovery and destruction. 

The German command shall also reveal all destructive measures 
that may have been taken (such as poisoning or pollution of wells, 
springs, etc.). 

Breaches of these clauses will involve reprisals. 

IX. The right of requisition shall be exercised by the allied and 
Ignited States armies in all occupied territories, save for settlement 
of accounts with authorized persons. 

The upkeep of the troops of occupation in the Rhine districts 
(excluding Alsace-Lorraine) shall be charged to the German Gov- 
ernment. 

X. The immediate repatriation, without reciprocity, according to 
detailed conditions which shall be fixed, of all allied and United 
States prisoners of war. including those under trial and condemned. 
The allied powers and the United States of America shall be able 
to dispose of these prisoners as they think fit. This condition annuls 
all other conventions regarding prisoners of war, including that of 
July, 1918, now being ratified. However, the return of German 
prisoners of war interned in Holland and Switzerland shall continue 
as heretofore. The return of German prisoners of war shall be 
settled at the conclusion of the peace preliminaries. 

XI. Sick and wounded who can not be removed from territory 
evacuated b}^ the German forces shall be cared for by German per- 
sonnel, who shall be left on the spot with the materilal required. 

(B) CLAUSES RELATING TO THE EASTERN FRONTIERS OF GERMANY. 

XII. All German troops at present in any territory which before 
the war formed part of Austria-Hungary, Roumania, or Turkey, 
shall withdraw within the frontiers of Germany as they existed on 
xlugust 1, 1914, and all German troops at present in territories 
which before the w^ar formed part of Russia, must likewise return 
to within the frontiers of Germany as above defined, as soon as the 
Allies shall think the moment suitable, having regard to the internal 
situation of these territories. 

XIII. Evacuation of German troops to begin at once, and all 
German instructors, prisoners and agents, civilians as well as mili- 
tary, now on the territory of Russia (frontiers as defined on Aug. 1, 
1914), to be recalled. 

XIY. German troops to cease at once all requisitions and seizures 
and any other coercive measures with a view to obtaining supplies 
intended for Germany in Roumania and Russia (frontiers as de- 
fined on Aug. 1, 1914). 

XV. Annulment of the treaties of Bucharest and Brest-Litovsk 
and of the supplementary treaties. 

XVL The Allies shall have free access to the territories evacuated 
by the Germans on their eastern frontier, either through Danzig or by 
the Vistula, in order to convey supplies to the populations of these 
territories or for the purpose of maintaining order. 



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(C) CLAUSE RELATING TO EAST AFRICA. 

XVII. Evacuation of all German forces operating in East Africa 
within a period specified by the Allies. 

(D) GENERAL CLAUSES. 

XVIII. Kepatriation without reciprocity, within a maximum 
period of one month, in accordance with detailed conditions hereafter 
to be fixed, of all interned civilians, including hostages and persons 
under trial and condemned, who may be subjects of allied or asso- 
ciated States other than those mentioned in Clause III. 

FINANCIAL CLAUSES. 

XIX. With the reservation that any subsequent concessions and 
claims by the Allies and United States remain unaffected, the follow- 
ing financial conditions are imposed: 

Reparation for damage done. 

While the armistice lasts no public securities shall be removed by 
the enemy which can serve as a pledge to the Allies to cover reparation 
for war losses. 

Immediate restitution of the cash deposit in the National Bank of 
Belgium and, in general, immediate return of all documents, specie, 
stocks, shares, paper money, together with plant for the issue thereof, 
aifecting public or private interests in the invaded countries. 

Restitution of the Russian and Roumanian gold yielded to Germany 
or taken by that power. 

This gold is to be delivered in trust to the Allies until peace is 
concluded. 

(E) NAVAL CONDITIONS. 

XX. Immediate cessation of all hostilities at sea and definite infor- 
mation to he given as to the position and movements of all German 
ships. 

Notification to be given to neutrals that freedom of navigation in all 
territorial waters is given to the navies and mercantile marines of the 
allied and associated powers, all questions of neutrality being waived. 

XXI. All naval and mercantile marine prisoners of war of the 
allied and associated powers in German hands to be returned without 
reciprocity. 

XXII. To surrender at the ports specified by the Allies and the 
United States all submarines at present in existence (including all 
submarine cruisers and mine layers), with armament and equipment 
complete. Those that can not put to sea shall be deprived of arma- 
ment and equipment and shall remain under the supervision of the 
Allies and the United States. Submarines ready to put to sea shall 
be prepared to leave German ports immediately on receipt of a wire- 
less order to sail to the port of surrender, the remainder to follow as 
early as possible. The conditions of this article shall be completed 
within 14 days of the signing of the armistice. 

XXIII. The following German surface warships, which shall be 
designated by the Allies and the United States of America, shall 



ARMISTICE AGREEMENTS. 7 

forthwith be disarmed and thereafter interned in neutral ports, or, 
failing them, allied ports, to be designated by the Allies and the 
United States of America, and placed under the surveillance of the 
Allies and the United States of America, only care and maintenance 
parties being left on board, namely : 

6 battle cruisers. 

10 battleships. 

8 liglit cruisers (including 2 mine layers). 

50 destroyers of the most modern type. 

All other surface warships (including river craft) are to be concen- 
trated in German naval bases, to be designated by the Allies and the 
United States of America, completely disarmed and placed under the 
supervision of the Allies and the United States of America. All 
vessels of the auxiliary fleet are to be disarmed. All vessels specified 
for internment shall be ready to leave German ports seven days after 
the signing of the armistice. Directions for the voyage shall be given 
by wireless. 

XXIV. The Allies and the United States of America shall have the 
right to sweep up all mine fields and destroy all obstructions laid by 
Germany outside German territorial waters, and the positions of 
these are to be indicated. 

XXV. Freedom of access to and from the Baltic to be given to the 
navies and mercantile marines of the allied and associated powers. 
This to be secured by the occupation of all German forts, fortifica- 
tions, batteries, and clefense works of all kinds in all the rout&s ivoni 
the Cattegat into the Baltic and by the sweeping up and destruction 
of all mines and obstructions within and without German territorial 
waters without any questions of neutrality being raised by Germany, 
and the positions of all such mines and obstructions to be indicated, 
and the plans relating thereto are to be supplied. 

XXVI. The existing blockade conditions set up by the allied and 
associated powers are to remain unchanged, and all German merchant 
ships found at sea are to remain liable to capture. The Allies and 
United States contemplate the provisioning of Germany during the 
armistice as shall be found necessary. 

XXVII. All aerial forces are to be concentrated and immobilized 
in German bases to be specified by the Allies and the United States of 
America. 

XXVIII. In evacuating the Belgian coasts and ports Germany 
shall abandon in situ and intact the port material and 
material for inland waterways, also all merchant ships, tugs and 
lighters, all naval aircraft and air materials and stores, all arms 
and armaments and all stores and apparatus of all kinds. 

XXIX. All Black Sea ports are to be evacuated by Germany: 
all Russian warships of all descriptions seized by Gerinany in the 
Black Sea are to be handed over to the Allies and the United States 
of America ; all neutral merchant ships seized in the Black Sea are to 
be released; all warlike and other materials of all kinds seized in 
those ports are to be returned, and German materials as specified in 
Clause XXVIII are to be abandoned. 

XXX. All merchant ships at present in German hands belonging 
to the allied and associated powers are to be restored to ports speci- 
fied by the Allies and the United States of America without reci- 
procity. 



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XXXI. No destruction of sliips or of materials to be permitted 
before evacuation, surrender, or restoration. 

XXXII. The German Govei-nment shall formally notify all the 
neutral Go\'«rnments, and particularly the Governments of Xorway, 
Sweden, Denmark, and Holland, thaib all restrictions placed on the- 
trading of their vessels with the allied and associated countries, 
whether by the German Government or by private German interests, 
and whether in return for specific concessions, such as the export of 
shipbuilding materials, or not, are immediately canceled. 

XXXIII. No transfers of (Tcrman merchant shipping of any de- 
scription to any neutral flag are to take place after signature of the 
armistice. 

(F) DURATION OF ARMISTICE. 

XXXIV. The duration of the armistice is to be 36 days, with 
option to extend. During this period, on failure of execution of any 
of the above clauses, the armistice may be repudiated by one of the 
contracting parties on 48 hours' previous notice. It is understood 
tliat failure to execute Articles III and XVIII completely in the 
periods specified is not to give reason for a repudiation of the armis- 
tice, save where such failui-e is due to malice aforethought. 

To insure the execution of the present convention under the most 
favorable conditions, the principle of a permanent international ar- 
mistice commission is recognized. This commission shall act under 
the supreme authority of the high command, military and naval, of 
the allied armies. 

The present armistice was signed on the 11th day of November, 
1918, at 5 o'clock a. m. (French time). 

(Signed) F. Foch. Erzberger. 

H. E. Wemtss. Oberxdorff. 

WiNTERFELDT. 

Vanselow. 



November 11, 1918. 
The representatives of the Allies declare that, in view of fresh 
events, it appears necessary to them that the following condition 
shall be added to the clauses of the armistice : 

In case the German ships are not handed over within the periods specified, the 
Governments of the Allies and of the United States shall have the right to oc- 
cupy Heligoland to insure their delivery. 

(Signed) F. Foch. 

E. E. Wemyss, 

Admiral. 

The German delegates declare that they will forward this declara- 
tion to the German chancellor, with the recommendation that it be 
accepted, accompanying it with the reasons by which the Allies have 
been actuated in making this demand, 
sh sh sh sh sh sh sli sh sh s rcmfwy cmfw 

( Signed ) Erzberger. 

Oberxdorff. 
Wixterfeldt. 
Vaxselow. 



ARMISTICE AGREEMENTS. 



Annex No. 1. 



I. The evacuation of the invaded territories, Belgiuni. France, 
and Luxemburg, and also of Alsace-Lorraine, shall be carried out in 
three successive stages according to the following conditions: 

First stage. — Evacuation of the territories situated between the 
existing front and line No. 1 on the inclosed map, to be com[)leted 
within 5 days after the signature of the armistice. 

Second stage. — Evacuation of territories situated between line 
No. 1 and line No. 2, to be carried out within 4 further days (0 days 
in all after the signing of the armistice). 

Third stage. — Evacuation of the territories situated between line 
No. 2 and line No. 3, to be completed within 6 further days (15 days 
in all after the signing of the armistice). 

Allied and United States troops shall enter these various territories 
on the expiration of the period allowed to the German troops for the 
evacuation of each. 

In consequence, the allied troops w^ill cross the present German 
front as from the 6th day following the signing of the armistice, line 
No. 1 as from the 10th day, and line No. 2 as from the 16th day. 

II. Evoeuation of the Rhine district. — This evacuation shall also 
be carried out in several successive stages : 

(1) Evacuation of territories situated between lines 2 and 3 and 
line 4, to be completed within 4 further days (19 days in all after the 
signing of the armistice). 

(2) Evacuation of territories situated betAveen lines 4 and 5 to be 
completed within 4 further days (23 days in all after the signing of 
the armistice). 

(3) Evacuation of territories situated between lines 5 and 6 (line 
of the Ehine) to be completed within 4 further days (27 days in 
all after the signing of the armistice). 

(4) Evacuation of the bridgeheads and of the neutral zone on the 
right bank of the Rhine to be completed within 4 further days (31 
days in all after the signing of the armistice). 

The allied and United States army of occupation shall enter these 
various territories after the expiration of the period allowed to the 
German troops for the evacuation of each; consequently the army 
will cross line No. 3, 20 days after the signing of the armistice. It will 
cross line No. 4 as from the twent3'--fourth clay after the signing of 
the armistice; line No. 5 as from the twenty-eighth day; line No. 6 
(Rhine) the thirty-second day, in order to occupy the bridgeheads. 

III. Surre7ider hy the German armies of war material specified by 
the armistice. — This war material shall be surrendered according to 
the following conditions: The first half before the tenth day, the 
second half before the twentieth day. This material shall be handed 
over to each of the allied and United States armies by each larger 
tactical group of the German armies in the proportions which may 
be fixed by the permanent International Armistice Commission. 



ANNEX NO. 2. 



Conditions regarding communications, railways, waterways, roads, 
river and sea ports, and telegraphic and telephonic communications: 

I. All communications as far as the Rhine, inclusive, or comprised, 
on the right bank of this river, within the bridgeheads occupied by 



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the allied armies shall be placed under the supreme and absolute 
authority of the commander in chief of the allied armies, who shall 
have the right to take any measure he may think necessary to assure 
their occupation and use. All documents relative to communications 
shall be held ready for transmission to him. 

II. All the material and all the civil and military personnel at 
present employed in the maintenance and working of all lines of 
communication are to be maintained in their entirety upon these 
lines in all territories evacuated by the German troops. 

All supplementary material necessary for the upkeep of these lines 
of communication in the districts on the left bank of the Rhine shall 
be supplied by the German Government throughout the duration of 
the armistice. 

III. Personnel. — The French and Belgian personnel belonging to 
the services of the lines of communication, whether interned or not, 
are to be returned to the French and Belgian armies during the 15 
days following the signing of the armistice. The personnel belong- 
ing to the organization of the Alsace-Lorraine railway system is to 
be maintained or reinstated in such a way as to insure the working 
of the system. 

The commander in chief of the allied armies shall have the right 
to make all changes and substitutions that he may desire in the per- 
sonnel of the lines of communication. 

IV. Material — {a) Rolling stock. — The rolling stock handed over 
to the allied armies in the zone comprised between the present front 

11 nd line No. 3, not including Alsace-Lorraine, shall amount at least 
to 5,000 locomotives and 150,000 wagons. This surrender shall be 
carried out within the period fixed by clause 7 of the armistice, and 
under conditions the details of which shall be fixed by the permanent 
International Armistice Commission. 

All this material is to be in good condition and in working order, 
with all the ordinary spare parts and fittings. It may be employed 
together with the regular personnel, or with any other, upon any 
part of the railway system of the allied armies. 

The material necessary for the working of the Alsace-Lorraine 
railway system is to be maintained or replaced for the use of the 
French army. 

The material to be left in situ in the territories on the left bank 
of the Rhine, as well as that on the inner side of the bridgeheads, 
must permit of the normal working of the railways in these districts. 

{h) Permanent way., signals^ and tvorhshops. — The material for 
signals, machine tools, and tool outfits, taken from the workshops 
and depots of the French and Belgian lines, are to be replaced under 
conditions the details of which are to be arranged by the permanent 
International Armistice Commission. 

The allied armies are to be supplied with railroad material, rails, 
incidental fittings, plant, bridge-building material, and timber neces- 
sary for the repair of the lines destroyed beyond the present front. 

(c) Fuel and maintenance material. — The German Government 
shall be responsible throughout the duration of the armistice for the 
release of fuel and maintenance material to the depots normally 
allotted to the railways in the territories on the left bank of the 
Rhine. 



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V. Telegraphic and telephonic communications. — All telegraphs, 
telephones, and fixed W/T stations are to be handed over to the 
allied armies, with all the civil and military personnel and all their 
material, including all stores on the left bank of the Rhine. 

Supplementary stores necessary for the upkeep of the system are 
to be supplied throughout the duration of the armistice by the Ger- 
man Government according to requirements. 

The commander in chief of the allied armies shall place this sys- 
tem under military supervision and shall insure its control, and shall 
make all changes and substitutions in personnel which he may think 
necessary. 

He will send back to the German Army all the military personnel 
who are not in his judgment necessary for the working and upkeep 
of the railway. 

All plans of the German telegraphic and telephonic systems shall 
be handed over to the commander in chief of the allied armies. 



CONVENTION PROLONGING THE ARMISTICE WITH GERMANY, 
DECEMBER 1,3, 1918. 

COMVENTION. 

The undersigned, in virtue of the powers with which they were 
endowed for the signing of the armistice of the 11th November, 
1918, have concluded the following additional agreement: 

1. Tlie duration of the armistice signed on the 11th November, 
1918, has been prolonged for a month, i. e., till 5 a. m. on the 17th 
January, 1919. 

The one month's extension will be further extended until the con- 
clusion of peace preliminaries, provided this arrangement meets with 
the approbation of the allied Governments. 

2. The clauses of the convention (lltli November) which have 
been incompletely fulfilled will be carried out during the period of 
extension, according to the conditions laid down by the Permanent 
International Armistice Commission following the orders given by 
the allied generalissimo. 

3. The following clause is added to the convention of the 11th 
November, 1918 : [This condition was first announced in a note of the 
Allies December 12, 1918, in which infractions of 12 articles of the 
armistice by Germany were listed. These included failure to deliver 
war material, aircraft, railroad rolling stock, and naval vessels in 
the time and quantity provided. In connection with the last cate- 
gory the statement read : " Five submarines in Spain, one in Norway, 
and one in Netherlands ought to be delivered," and " The refusal ol 
the German Government to deliver the vessels condemned by the 
prize court is considered as contrary to the terms of the armistice." 
Other infractions were stated to be ill-treatment of inhabitants of 
evacuated territory and neglect of liberated prisoners of war; failure 
to indicate live mines in evacuated reojions; failure to open naviga- 
tion to the Baltic and removal of securities and gold reserves pledged 
as a financial guaranty to the Allies. Germany replied on the same 
day, asserting her good faith and that such infractions as had oc- 



12 ARMISTICE AGREEMENTS. 

ciiii-ed were due to physical impossibilities and tlie upset conditions 
of the country. The Allies, however, reasserted the new condition, 
taking account particularly of " the ill-treatment and cruelty in- 
flicted upon allied prisoners as well as the diminution of financial 
guaranties given by Germany to the Allies" (quoted in Holland 
News '2 : 25:20 et seq. from Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, December 
17, 1918).] 

From now onwards the generalissinio reserve^< to irhn elf the right of occupy- 
ing (when he deems it advisable), as an additional guarantee, the neutral zone 
on the right bank of the Rhine, north of the brigehead of Cologne, and as far 
as the Dutch frontier. 

Six days' notice will be given by the generalissimo before the occupation 
comes into effect. 

Treves. December 13, 1918. 

(Signed) F. Foch, Erzberger. 

WeMYSS, a, OBEENDOIiFF. 

Admiral. Winterfeldt. 

Vanselow. 



CONVENTION PROLONGING THE ARMISTICE WITH GERMANY, 
JANUARY 16, 1919. 

CONVENTION. 

The undersigned plenipotentiaries (Admiral Browning taking the 
place of Admiral Wemyss), vested with the powers in virtue of 
which the armistice agreement of 11th November, 1918, was signed, 
have concluded the following supplementary agreement: 

1. The armistice of the 11th November, 1918. which was prolonged 
until the ITth January, 1919, by the agreement of the 13th Decembei. 
1918. shall be again prolonged for one month, that is to say, until 
the ITth February, 1919, at 5 a. m. 

This prolongation of one month shall be extended until the con- 
clusion of the peace preliminaries, subject to the approval of the 
allied Governments. 

2. The execution of those clauses of the agreement of the 11th 
November which have not been entirely carried out shall be pro- 
ceeded Avith and completed during the ])rolongation of the armistice, 
in accordance with the detailed conditions fixed by the Permanent 
International Armistice Commission on the instructions of the allied 
high conunand. 

3. In substitution of the supplementary railway material specified 
by Tables 1 and 2 of the Spa protocol of ITth December, i. e., 500 
locomotives and 19.000 wagons, the German Government shall supply 
the following agricultural machinery and instruments: 

400 two-engined steam-i)l(iw outtits. coniiilete. with suitalUe plows. 
G,.500 drills. 

6,500 manure distributors. 
6,500 plows. 
6,.500 Brabant plows. 
12,500 harrows. 
6,500 scarifiers. 
2,500 steel rollers. 
2,.500 Croskill rollers. 
2. .500 mowing machines. 
2,500 hay-making machines. 
3,000 reapers and binders. 



ARMISTICE AGREEMEJS^TS. 13 

or equivalent inipleiiients, accoi'ding- to the scale of intercliangeability 
of various kinds of implements considered permissible by the Per- 
manent International Armistice Commission. All this^ material, 
which shall be either new or in very good condition, shall be deliv- 
ered together with all accessories belonging to each implement and 
with the spare parts required for 18 months' use. 

The German Armistice Connnission shall, between the present date 
and the 23d January, supply the Allied Armistice Commission with 
a list of the material that can be delivered by the 1st March, whicli 
must, in principle, constitute not less than one-third of the total 
quantity. The International Armistice Connnission shall, between 
now and the 23d January, fix the latest dates of delivery, which shall, 
in principle, not extend beyond the 1st June. 

1. The officers in (jermany delegated by the allied and associated 
powers to organize the evacuation of the prisoners of war belonging 
to the armies of the entente, together with representatives of the 
relief associations of the United States, France, Great Britain, and 
Italy shall form a connnission charged with the care of Russian 
prisoners of war in Germany. 

This commission, the headquarters of which shall be in Berlin, 
shall be empowered to deal with the German Government direct, 
upon instructions from the allied (xovernments, regarding all ques- 
tions relating to Russian prisoners of war. 

The German Government shall accord the connnission all travel- 
ing facilities necessary for the purpose of investigating the housing- 
conditions and food supply of such prisoners. 

The allied Governments reserve the right to arrange for the repa- 
triation of Russian prisoners of war to any region which they may 
consider most suitable. 

5. Naval clauses. — Article XXII, of the armistice agreement of 
the 11th November, 1918, shall be supplemented as follows: 

In order to insure the exfciition of such clause, the German authorities shall 
be bound to carry out the following conditions: 

All suiunarines capal)lo of putting to sea, or of being towed, shall be handed 
over immediately and shall make for allied ports. Such vessels shall include 
sulmiarine cruisers, mine layers, relief ships, and submarine docks. All sub- 
marines which can not be surrendered shall be completely destroyed or disman- 
tled under the supervision of the allied commissioners. 

Submarine construction shall cease immediately, and all submarines in 
course of construction shall be destroyed or dismantled under the supervision 
of the allied commissioners. 

Article XXIII of the armistice agreement of the 11th Xovember, 
1918, shall be supplemented as follows : 

In order to insure the execution of such clause, the (Jerman connnission shall 
furnish the interallied naval armistice commission with a complete list of 
all surface vessels constructed or in course of construction (launched or on the 
stocks), specifying probable dates of completion. 

Article XXX of the armistice agreement of 11th November, 1918, 
shall be supplemented as follows: 

In ordei- to insure the execution of such clause, the allied high connuand 
informs the (lerman high command that all possible measures must be taken 
innnediately for delivery, in allied ports, of all allied merchantmen still de- 
tained in German ports. 

6. Restitution of material carried off from Belgian and French 
territories. — As restitution of material carried off from French and 



14 ARMISTICE AGREEMENTS. 

Belgian territory is indispensable for setting factories once more into 
working order, the following measures shall be carried out, viz : 

(a) All machinery, machinery' parts, industrial or agricultural 
plant, accessories of all kinds and, generally, all industrial or agri- 
cultural articles carried off by German military or civilian authori- 
ties or individuals, under any pretext whatever, from territories for- 
merly occupied by the German armies on the western front, shall 
be placed at the disposal of the Allies for the purpose of being re- 
turned to their places of origin, should the French and Belgian Gov- 
ernments so desire. 

These articles shall be returned without further alteration and un- 
damaged. 

(h) In view of such restitution, the German Government shall im- 
mediately furnish the armistice commission with all official or pri- 
vate accounts, agreements for sale or hire, or correspondence relat- 
ing to such articles, together with all necessary declarations or in- 
formation regarding their existence, origin, adaptation, present con- 
dition and locality. 

(c) The delegates of the French or Belgian Government shall 
cause inventories or examinations of such articles to be made on the 
spot in Germany, should they think fit. 

(d) The return of such articles shall be effected in accordance 
with special instructions to be given as required by the French or 
Belgian authorities. 

(e) With a view to immediate restitution, declarations shall more 
particularly be made of all stocks of driving belts, electric motors 
and parts thereof, or plant removed from France or Belgium and 
existing in depot parks, railways, ships, and factories. 

(/) The furnishing of the particulars referred to in articles 3 and 
6 hereof shall commence within eight clear days from the 20th Janu- 
ary, 1919, and shall be completed in principle before the 1st April, 
1919. 

7, As a further guarantee, the supreme allied command reserves 
to itself the right to occupy, whenever it shall consider this desir- 
able, the sector of the fortress of Strassburg formed by the fortifica- 
tions on the right bank of the Rhine, with a strip of territory ex- 
tending from 5 to 10 kilometers in front of such fortifications, within 
the boundaries defined on the map appended hereto. 

The supreme allied command shall give six days' notice prior to 
such occupation, which shall not be preceded by any destruction of 
material or of buildings. 

The limits of the neutral zone will, therefore, be advanced by 10 
kilometers. 

8. In order to secure the provisioning of Germany and of the 
rest of Europe, the German Government shall take all necessary 
steps to place the German fleet, for the duration of the armistice, 
under the control and the flags of the allied powers and the United 
States, who shall be assisted by a German delegate. 

This arrangement shall ii\ no wise affect the final disposal of such 
vessels. The Allies and the United States shall, if they consider this 
necessary, replace the crews either entirely or in part, and the officers 
and crews so replaced shall be repatriated to Germany. 



AKMISTICE AGREEMENTS. 15 

Suitable compensation, to be fixed by the allied Governments, shall 
be made for the use of such vessels. 

All questions of details, as also any exceptions to be made in the 
case of certain types of vessel, shall be settled by a special agreement 
to be concluded immediately. 
Treves, January 16, 1919. 

(Signed) Foch. Erzberger. 

Browning. Oberndorff. 

VON WlNTERFELDT. 

Vanselow. 



CONVENTION PROLONGING THE ARMISTICE WITH GERMANY, 
FEBRUARY 16, 1919. 

CONVENTION, 

The undersigned plenipotentiaries, possessed of the powers in vir- 
tue of which the artimstice agreement of November 11, 1918, was 
signed, have concluded the following additional agreement: 

Admiral Wemyss being replaced by Admiral Browning, Gen. von 
Winterfeldt by Gen. von Hammerstein, and the minister plenipoten- 
tiary. Count von Oberndorff, by the minister plenipotentiary, von 
Haniel. 

I. The Germans are to cease all hostilities against the Poles at once, 
whether in the district of Posen or any other district. With this end 
in view, they are forbidden to allow their troops to cross the follow- 
ing line : The old frontier between East and West I*russia and Russia 
as far as Louisenfelde, from thence the line west of Louisenfelde, west 
of Gr. Neudorff, south of Brzoza, north of Schubin, north of Exin, 
south of Samotschin, south of Chodziesen, north of Czarnilvau, west 
of Miala, west of Birnbaum, west of Bentschen, west of Wollstein, 
north of Lissa, north of Rawitsch, south of Krotoschin, west of Adel- 
nau, Avest of Schildberg, north of Doruchow, to the Silesian frontier. 

II. The armistice of November 11, prolonged by the agreements of 
December 13, 1918, and January 16, 1919, until February 17, 1919, is 
further prolonged for a short period, the date of expiry not being- 
given, the allied powers and those associated with them reserving to 
themselves the right to terminate the period at three days' notice. 

III. The carryino- out of those clauses of the agreement of Novem- 
ber 11, 1918, and of the additional agreements of December 13, 1918, 
and January 16, 1919, the terms of which have not yet been fully 
carried into effect, will be continued and completed during the pro- 
longation of the armistice, according to detailed arrangements made 
by the permanent armistice commission, acting on instructions issued 
by the supreme allied command. 

^ Treves, February 16, 1919. 

(Signed) Foch. Erzberger. 

Browning. Freiherr v. Hammerstein. 

VON Haniel. 
Vanselow. 



16 AEMISTICE AGREEMENTS. 

TEILAIS OF ARMISTICP: WITH AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, NOYEMBKR 3, 1918. 
(A) MILITARY CLAUSES, 

1. Immediate cessation of hostilities by land and sea and air. 

2. Total demobilization of Anstro-Huiigarian Army and immediate 
withdraAYal of Austro-Hungarian forces operating on front from 
North Sea to Switzerland. 

Within Aiistro-Hungarian territory limited as in clause 3, below, 
there shall only be maintained as an organized military force a maxi- 
nnun of '20 divisions reduced to ]Drewar effectives. 

Half the divisional corps and army artillery and equipment shall 
be collected at points to be indicated by Allies and United States of 
America for delivery to them, beginning with all such nuiterial as 
exists in territories to be evacuated by Austro-Hungarian forces. 

3. Evacuation of all territories invaded by Austria-Hungary since 
the beginning of the war. Withdrawal within such periods as shall 
be determined by the conunander in chief of allied forces on each 
front, of Austro-Hungarian armies behind a line fixed as follows: 
From Piz Umbrail to north of Stelvio it will follow crest of Ehetian 
Alps to sources of the Adige and Eisach, passing thence by the 
Eeschen and Brenner and the heights of Oetz and Ziller. 

The line thence turns south, crossing Mount Toblach as far as 
present frontier of Carnic Alps. It follows this line as far as 
Mount Tarvis, thence to watershed of Julian Alps by Col de Predil, 
Mount Mangart, the Tricorno (Terglou) and watershed Podberdo, 
Podlaniscan, and Idria. From this point the line turns southeast 
toward the Schneeberg, excluding the whole basin of the Save Eiver 
and its tributaries ; from Schneeberg it descends the coast in such a 
way as to include Castua, Mattuglia, and Volosca in evacuated terri- 
tories. 

It will follow the administrative limits of present Province of 
Dalmatia, including to the north Lisarica and Tribania and to the 
south, territory limited by a line from the shore of Cape Planka to 
the summits of Avatershed eastward so as to include in evacuated 
area all the valleys and watercourses flowing toward Sebenico, such 
as Cicola, Karka. Butisnica, and their tributaries. It will also in- 
clude all the islands in the north and west of Dalmatia from Pre- 
muda. Selve, Uubo, Scherba, Maon, Pago, and Puntadura Islands^ 
in the north, up to Meleda. in the suoth, embracing Sant' Andrea, 
Busi, Lissa, Lesina, Tercola, Curzolii, Cazza, and Lagosta as well as 
neighboring rocks and islets and Pelagosa, only excepting the islands 
of great and small Zirona, Bua, Solta, ancl Brazza. 

All territories thus evacuated Avill be occupied by allied and Ameri- 
can troops. 

All uiilitary and raihvay equipment of all kinds (including coal) 
within these territories to be let in situ, and surrendered to the Allies 
and America according to special orders given by comuumder in chief 
of forces of associated powers on different fronts. 

No ncAv destruction, pillage, or requisition by enemy troops in 
territories to be evacuated by them and occupied by associated powers. 

4. Allied armies shall have the right of free movement over all 
road and rail and water ways in Austro-Hungarian territory which 
shall ])e necessary. 



ARMISTICE AGREEMENTS. 17 

Armies of associated powers shall occupy such strategic points 
in Austria-Hungary at such times as they may deem necessary to 
enable them to conduct military operations or to maintain order. 

They shall have the right of requisition on payment for troops of 
associated powers wherever they may be. 

5. Complete evacuation of all German troops within 15 days not 
only from Italian and Balkan fronts but from all Austro-Hun- 
garian territory.. 

Internment of all German troops which have not left Austria- 
Hungary before that date. 

6. Administration of evacuated territories of Austria-Hungary 
will provisionally be intrusted to local authorities under control of 
the allied and associated armies of occupation. 

7. Immediate repatriation, without reciprocity, of all prisoners of 
war and interned allied subjects and of civilian populations evacu- 
ated from their homes on conditions to be laid down by commanders 
in chief of forces of allied powers on various fronts. 

8. Sick and wounded who can not be removed from evacuated 
territor}^ will be cared for by Austro-Hungarian personnel who will 
be left on the spot with medical material required. 

(B) NAVAI. CONDITIONS. 

1. Immediate cessation of all hostilities at sea and definite informa- 
tion to be given as to location and movements of all Austro-Hun- 
garian ships. 

Notification to be made to neutrals that free navigation in all 
territorial waters is given to the naval and mercantile marines of 
the allied and associated powers, all questions of neutrality being 
w^aived. 

2. Surrender to the Allies and United States of America of 15 
Austro-Hungarian submarines completed between years 1910 and 
1918 and of all German submarines which are in or may hereafter 
enter Austro-Hungarian territorial waters. All other Austro-Hun- 
garian submarines to be paid off and completely disarmed and to 
remain under supervision of the Allies. 

3. Surrender to the Allies and United States of America, with 
their complete armament and equipment, of 3 battleships, 3 light 
cruisers. 9 destroyei'S, 12 torpedo boats, 1 mine la3^er, 6 Danube 
monitors, to be designated by the Allies and United States of 
America. 

All other surface war ships (including river craft) are to be con- 
centrated in Austro-Hungarian naval bases to be designated by the 
Allies and United States of America, and are to be paid off, com- 
pletely rlisarmed, and placed under supervision of Allies and United 
States of America. 

4. Free navigation to all war ships and merchant ships of allied 
and associated powers to be given in Adriatic, in territorial waters, 
and up Eiver Danube and its tributaries, and Austro-Hungarian 
territory. 

Allies and associated powers shall have right to sweep ,up all 
mine fields and obstructions, and positions of these are to be indi- 
cated. 

S. Doc. 147, 66-1 2 



18 ARMISTICE AGREEMENTS. 

In order to insure free navigation on the Danube, Allies and 
United States of America shall be empowered to occupy or to dis- 
mantle all fortifications or defense works. 

5. Existing blockade conditions set up by allied and associated 
powers are to remain unchanged, and all Austro-Hungarian mer- 
chant ships found at sea are to remain liable to capture with the 
exceptions which may be made by a commission nominated by Allies 
and United States. 

6. All naval aircraft are to be concentrated and immobilized 
in Austro-Hungarian bases to be designated by Allies and United 
States of America. 

7. Evacuation of all the Italian coast, and of all ports occupied 
by Austria-Hungary outside their national territory, and abandon- 
ment of all floating craft, naval materials, equipment, and materials 
for inland navigation of all kinds. 

8. Occupation by Allies and United States of America of land 
and sea fortifications and islands which form defenses, and of dock- 
yards and arsenals at Pola. 

9. All merchant vessels held by Austria-Hungary belonging to 
Allies and associated powers to be returned. 

10. No destruction of ships or of materials to be permitted before 
evacuation, surrender, or restoration. 

11. All naval and mercantile prisoners of war of allied and 
associated powers in Austro-Hungarian hands to be returned with- 
out reciprocity. 

The undersigned plenipotentiaries, duly authorized, -signify their 
approval of above conditions : 
November 3, 1918. 

Representatives of Austro-Hungarian Representatives of Italian supreme 
supreme command. command. 

Victor Weber, Edler von Ten. Gen. Pietro Badoglio. 

Webenau. Magg. Gen. Scipione Scipioni. 

Karl Schneller. Colonn. Tullio Marchetti. 

Y. VON Liechtenstein. Colonn. Pietro Gazzera. 

J. Y. Nyekhegyi. Colonn. Pietro Maravigna. 

ZwiERK0w\SKi. Colonn. Alberty Pariani. 
Yictor Fpeiherr von Seiller. Cap. Vase. Francesco Accinni. 
Kamillo Ruggera. 



Supplement to protocol. 

Contains details and executive clauses of certain points of the 
armistice between the allied and associated powers and Austria- 
Hungary. 

(l) MILITARY clauses. 

1. Hostilities on land, sea, and air, will cease on all Austro-Hun- 
garian fronts 24 hours after the signing of the armistice, i. e., at 8 
o'clock on November 1 (Central European time). 

From that hour the Italian and allied troops will not advance 
bevond the line then reached. 



ARMISTICE AGREEMENTS. 19 

The Austro-Hungarian troops and those of her allies must retire 
to a distance of at least 3 kilometers (as the crow flies) from the 
line reached by the Italian troops or by troops of allied countries. 
Inhabitants of tlie 3-kilonieter zone included between the two lines 
(above-mentioned) will be able to obtain necessary supplies from 
their own army or those of the Allies. 

All Austro-Hungarian troops who may be at the rear of the fighting- 
lines reached by the Italian troops, on the cessation of hostilities must 
be regarded as prisoners of war. 

2. Regarding the clauses included in articles 2 and 3 concerning 
artillery equipment and war material to be either collected in places 
indicated or left in territories which are to be evacuated, the Italian 
plenipotentiaries representing all the allied and associated powers, 
give to the said clauses the following interpretation, which will be 
cari-ied into execution : 

(a) Any material or part thereof which may be used for the pur- 
l)()se of wiir uiust be given up to tlie allied and associated powers. 
The Austro-Hungarian army and the (xerman troops are only au- 
thorized to take personal arms and equipment belonging to troops 
evacuating the territories mentioned in article 3, besides officers' 
chargers, the transport train, and horses specially allotted to each 
unit for transport of food supplies, kitchens, officers' luggage, and 
medical material. This clause applies to the whole army and to all 
the services. 

(h) Concerning artillery, it has been arranged that the Austro- 
Hungarian aruiy and German troops shall abandon all artillery ma- 
terial and equipment in the territory to be evacuated. 

The calculations necessary for obtaining a complete and exact total 
of the artillery divisions and army corps at the disposal of Austro- 
Hungary on the cessation of hostilities (half of which must be 
given up to the associated powers) will be made later, in order to 
arrange, if necessary, for the delivery of other Austro-Hungarian 
artillery material and for the possible eventual return of material to 
the Austro-Hungarian army by the allied and associated armies. 

All artillery which does not actually form part of the divisional 
artillery and army corps must be given up, without exception. It 
will not, however, be necessary to calculate the amount. 

(r) On the Italian front the delivery of divisional and army corps 
artillery will be effected at the following places: Trento, Bolzano, 
Pieve di Cadore, Stazione per la Carnia, Tolmino, Gorizia, and 
Trieste. 

3. Special commissions will be selected by the commanders in chief 
of allied and associated armies on the various Austro-Hungarian 
fronts, which will immediately proceed, accompanied bv the neces- 
sarv escorts, to the places they regard as the most suitable from 
Avhich to control the execution of the provisions established above. 

4. It has been determined that the designations M. Toblach and 
M. Tarvis indicate the groups of mountains douiinating the ridge of 
Toblach Mountains and the Valley of Tarvis. 

5. The retirement of Austro-Hungarian troops and those^ of her 
allies bevond the lines indicated in article 3 of the protocol of armis- 
tice conditions, will take place within 15 days of the cessation of hos- 
tilities, as far as the Italian front is concerned. 



20 ARMISTICE AGREEMENTS. 

On the Italian front, Anstro-Hungarian troops and those of her 
allies must have retired beyond the line Tonale — Nooe — Lavis — 
Avisio — Pordoi — Lavinallongo — Falzarego — Pieve di Cadore — Colle 
Manria — Alto Tagliamento — Fella — Kaccolana — Selle Nevea — Isonzo 
by the fifth day ; they must also have evacuated the Dalmatian terri- 
tory indicated above. 

Austro-Hungarian troops on land and sea, or those of her allies, 
not having evacuated the territories indicated within the period of 
15 days will be regarded as prisoners of war. 

6. The payment of any requisitions made by the armies of the 
allied and associated armies on Austro-Hungarian territory will be 
carried out according to paragraph 1 of page 227 of " Servizio in 
Guerra — Part II. Edizione 1915," actually in force in the Italian 
army. 

7. As regards railways and the exercise of the rights confirmed 
upon the associated powers by article 4 of the armistice agreement 
between the allied powers and Austria-Hungary, it has been deter- 
mined that the transport of troops, war material, and supplies for 
allied and associated powers on the Austro-Hungarian railway sys- 
tem, outside territory evacuated in accordance with the terms of the 
armistice, and the direction and working of the railways shall be 
effected by the employees of the Austro-Hungarian railway adminis- 
tration, under the supervision of special commissioners selected by the 
allied powers, and the military Italian headquarters which it will be 
considered necessary to establish, the Austro-Hungarian authorities 
will give priority to allied military trains and will guarantee their 
safety. 

8. On territory to be evacuated at the cessation of hostilities all 
mines on roads or railway tracts, all mine fields and other devices for 
interrupting communications by road or rail must be rendered in- 
active and harmless. 

9. Within a period of eig-ht days from the cessation of hostilities, 
prisoners and Italian subjects interned in Austria-Hungary must 
cease all work, except in the case of prisoners and interned who have 
been employed in agTicultural pursuits' previous to the day on which 
the armistice was signed. In any case they must be ready to leave at 
once on request of the commander in chief of the Italian Army. 

10. Austria-Hungary must provide for the protection, safety, and 
supplies (expenses of these to be repaid) of the various commissions 
selected by the allied governments to take over war material and to 
exercise general control, whether in the territory to be evacuated or 
in any other part of Austria -Hungary. 

(II) NAVAL CLAUSES. 

1. The hour for the cessation of hostilities by sea will be the same 
as that of the cessation of hostilities by land and air. 

Before that time the Austro-Hungarian Government must have 
furnished the Italian Government, and those of the associated 
powers, with the necessary information concerning the position and 
movements of the Austro-Hungarian ships, through the Avireless 
station at Pola, which will transmit the information to Venice. 

2. The units referred to in Articles II and III, to be surrendered 
to the associated powers, must return to Venice between 8 a. m. and 



ARMISTICE AGREEMENTS. 21 

3 p. m. on November 6 ; they will take a pilot on board 14 miles from 
the coast. An exception is made as regards the Danube monitors, 
which will be required to proceed to a port indicated by the com- 
mander in chief of the forces of the associated powers on the Balkan 
front, under such conditions as he may determine. 

3. The following ships will proceed to Venice : 

Teghethoff. 
Prinz Eugen. 
Ferdinand Max. 
Saida. 
Novara. 
Helgoland. 
Nine destroyers of Tatra type (at least 800 tons) of most recent 
construction. 

Twelve torpedo boats (200-ton type). 
Mine layer Chamaleon. 

Fifteen submarines built between 1910 and 1918, and all German 
submarines which are, or may eventually be, in Austro-Hungarian 
waters. 

Premeditated damage, or damage occurring on board the ships to 
be surrendered will be regarded by the Allied Governments as a 
grave infringement of the present armistice terms. 

The Lago di Garda flotilla will be surrendered to the associated 
powers in the port of Riva. 

All ships to be surrendered to the associated powers will be 
concentrated in the ports of Buccari and Spalato within 48 hours of 
the cessation of hostilities. 

4. As regards the right of sweeping mine fields and destroying bar- 
rages, the Austro-Hungarian Government guarantees to deliver the 
maps of mine fields and barrages at Pola, Cattaro, and Fiume to the 
commander of the port of Venice, and to the admiral of the fleet at 
Brindisi within 48 hours of the cessation of hostilities, and within 
96 hours of the cessation of hostilities, maps of mine fields and bar- 
rages in the Mediterranean and Italian lakes and rivers, with addi- 
tional notification of such mine fields or barrages laid by order of the 
German Government as are within their knowledge. 

Within the same period of 96 hours a similar communication con- 
cerning the Danube and the Black Sea will be delivered to the com- 
mander of the associated forces on the Balkan front. 

5. The restitution of merchant ships belonging to the associated 
powers will take place within 96 hours of the cessation of hostilities, 
in accordance with the indications determined by each associated 
power which will be transmitted to the Austro-Hungarian Govern- 
ment. The associated powers reserve to themselves the constitution 
of the commission referred to in Article 5, and of informing the 
Austro-Hungarian Government of its functions and of the place in 
which it will meet. 

6. The naval base referred to in Article VI is Spalato. 

7. The evacuation referred to in Article VII will be effected within 
the period fixed for the retirement of the troops beyond the armistice 
lines. There must be no damage to fixed, mobile, or floating material 
in the ports. 

Evacuations may be effected via the Lagoon canals by means of 
Austro-Hungarian boats which may be brought in from outside. 



22 



ARMISTICE AGREEMENTS. 



8. The occupation referred to in Article VIII will take place 
within 48 hours of the cessation of hostilities. 

The Austro-Hungarian authorities must guarantee the safety of 
vessels transporting troops for the occupation of Pola and of islands 
und other places as provided for in the terms of the armistice for the 
land Army. 

The Austro-Hungarian Government will give directions that the 
ships belonging to associated powers proceeding to Pola should be 
met 14 miles out by pilots capable of showing them the safest way 
into port. All damage to the persons or property of the associated 
powers Avill be regarded as a grave infringement of the present arm- 
istice terms. 

The undersigned duly authorized plenipotentiaries have signified 
their approval of the above conditions. 

November 3, 1918. 



Rcprcsentatircs of the Supreme Com- 
dkiikI of the Austro-Hungarian 
Army. 

Victor Weber, Edler von Webe- 

NAU. 

Karl Schneller. 

Y. VON Liechtenstein. 

J. V. Nyekhegyi. 

zwierkowski. 

Victor, Freiherr von Seiller. 

Kamillo Euggera. 



Representatives of the Supreme Com- 
mand of the Italian Army. 



Ten. Gen. Pietro Badoglio. 
Magg. Gen. Scipione Scipioni. 



Colonn. 
Colonn. 
Colonn. 
Colonn. 



TuLLio Marchetti. 
Pietro Gazzera. 
Pietro Maravigna. 
Alberto Pariani. 



Cap. Vase. Francesco Accinni. 



TEXT OF MILITARY CONVENTION BETWEEN THE ALLIES AND HUN- 
GARY. SIGNED AT BELGRADE NOVEMBER 13, 1918. 

military convention regulating the conditions under which 

the armistice, signed between the allies and AUSTRIA -HUN GARY, 
IS to be applied in HUNGARY. 



1. The Hungarian Government will withdraw all troops north 
of a line drawn through the upper valley of the Szamos, Bistritz, 
Maros-Vasarhely, the river Maros to its junction with the Theiss, 
Maria-Theresiopel, Baja, Funfkirehen (these places not being occu- 
pied by Hungarian troops), course of the Drave, until it coincides 
with the frontier of Slavonia-Croatia. 

The evacuation to be carried out in eight daj^s, the Allies to be en- 
titled to occupy the evacuated territory on the conditions laid down 
by the general commander in chief of the allied armies. Civil ad- 
ministration will remain in the hands of the Government. 

In actual fact only the police and gendarmerie will be retained in 
the evacuated zone, being indispensable to the maintenance of order, 
and also such men as are required to insure the safety of the railways. 

2. Demobilization of Hungarian naval and military forces. An 
exception will be made in the rase of six infantry divisions and two 
cavalry divisions, required for the maintenance of internal order and 
in the case of small sections of police mentioned in paragraph 1. 



ARMISTICE AGREEMENTS. 23 

3. The Allies to have the right of occupying all places and strategic 
points, which may be permanently fixed by the general commander 
in chief of the allied armies. 

The allied troops to be allowed to pass through or to remain in 
any part of Hungary. 

The Allies to have permanent right of use, for military purposes, 
of all rolling stock and shipj)ing belonging to the State or to private 
individuals resident in Hungary, also of all draft animals. 

4. The rolling stock and railway staff usually employed in the 
occupied territory will remain (see paragraph 1), and a reserve of 
2,000 wagons and 100 locomotives (normal gauge), and 600 wagons 
and ^0 locomotives (narrow gauge), will also be handed over within 
the month to the general commander in chief. These will be for 
the use of the allied troops and to compensate for the deficiency of 
material from Serbia due to the war. Some portion of this material 
could be levied from Austria. The figures are approxinuite. 

5. The ships and crews, usually employed in the service of the 
occupied territory will remain, in addition to monitors Avill be sur- 
rendered to the Allies inniiediately at Belgrade. The rest of the 
Danube flotilla will be assembled in one of the Danube ports, to be 
appointed later by the general conmiander in chief, and will be dis- 
armed there. A levy of 10 passenger vessels, 10 tugs, and GO lighters 
will be made on this flotilla as soon as possible for the use of the 
allied troops, to compensate for the deficiency of material from Ser- 
bia due to the war. The figures are approximate. 

6. Within 15 days a detachment of 3,000 men from the railway 
technical troops are to be placed at the disposal of the general com- 
mander in chief, supplied with the material necessary to repair the 
Serbian railways. These figures are approximate. 

7. Within 15 days a detachment of sappers of the telegraph branch 
are to be placed at the disposal of the general commander in chief 
provided with material necessary for establishing telegraphic and 
telephone communications with Serbia. 

8. Within one month, "25,000 horses are to be placed at the dis- 
posal of the general commander in chief, together with such trans- 
port material as he may deem necessary. These figures are ap- 
proximate. 

0. Arms and war material to be deposited at phices appointed by 
the general commander in chief. A portion of this material will 
be levied for the purpose of supplying units to be placed under the 
orders of the general commander in chief. 

10. Immediate liberation of all allied prisoners of war and in- 
terned civilians, who will be collected at places convenient for their 
dispatch by rail. They will there receive directions as to time and 
place of rej^atriation, according to the orders issued by the general 
conunander in chief. Hungarian prisoners of war to be provisionally 
retained, 

11. A delay of 15 days is granted for the passage of German 
troops through Hungary and their quartering meanwhile, dating 
from the signing of the armistice by Gen. Diaz (Nov. 4. 3 p. m.). 
Postal and telegraphic communication with Germany will only be 
permitted under the military control of the Allies. The Hungarian 
Government undertakes to allow no military telegraphic conmninica- 
tion with Germany. 



24 ARMISTICE AGREEMENTS. 

12. Hungary will facilitate the supplying of the allied troops of 
occupation; requisitions will be allowed on condition that they are 
not arbitrary and that they are paid for at current rates. 

ly. The situation of all Austro-Hungarian mines in the Danube 
and the Black Sea must be communicated immediately to the general 
commander in chief.. Further, the Hungarian Government under- 
takes to stop the passage of all floating mines sown in the Danube 
upstream from the Hungarian and Austrian frontier and to remove 
all those actually in Hungarian waters. 

14. The Hungarian postal service, telegraphs, telephones, and 
railway's will be placed under allied control. 

15. An allied representative will be attached to the Hungarian 
ministry of supplies in order to safeguard allied interests. 

1(). Hungary is under an obligation to cease all relations with Ger- 
many and stringently to forbid the passage of German troops to 
Eoumania. 

17. The Allies shall not interfere with the internal administration 
of affairs in Hungary. 

18. Hostilities between Hungary and the Allies are at an end. 
Two copies made November 13, 1918, at 11.15 p. m., at Belgrade. 
Signed for the Allies by the delegates of the general commander 

in chief. 

VOIVODE MiSHITCH. 

Gen. Henrys. 

Signed for Hungary by the delegates of the Hungarian Govern- 
ment. 

Bela Linder. 

Bulgaria Armistice Convention September 29, 1918. 

MILITARY convention REGULATING THE CONDITIONS OF SUSPENSION OE 
HOSTILITIES BETWEEN THE ALLIED POWERS AND BULGARIA. 

(1) Immediate evacuation of the territories still occupied by Bul- 
garians in Greece and Serbia; no cattle, cereals, or provisions to be 
exported from such territories, Avhich must be left undamaged, the 
Bulgarian civil administration will continue to function in the parts 
of Bulgaria actually occupied by the Allies. 

(2) Immediate demobilization of the entire Bulgarian Army, with 
the exception of a fighting force comprising 3 divisions of 16 bat- 
talions each, 4 regiments of cavalry, which will be employed, 2 di- 
visions for the defense of the east frontier of Bulgaria, and of the 
Dobrudja and 1 division for guarding the railways. 

(3) Surrender at points designated by the high coimnand of the 
armies of the east of arms, munitions, and military vehicles belong- 
ing to the elements demobilized, which will be stored by the Bul- 
garian authorities and under the control of the Allies. The horses 
also will be handed over to the Allies. 

(4) Restitution to Greece of the material of the Fourth Greek 
Army Corps, taken from the Greek Army at the occupation of east- 
ern Macedonia, in so fai- that it has not been sent to Germany. 

(5) The elements of the Bulgarian troops now at the west of the 
meridian of Uskub will lay down their arms and will be considered, 



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until further order, as prisoners of war; the officers will be allowed 
to keep their swords. 

(6) The Buloarian prisoners of war in the East will be employed 
by the allied armies until the peace without reciprocity as concern- 
ing the prisoners of war of the Allies. These last will be immedia- 
•ately surrendered to the allied authorities and deported civilians 
will be wholly free to reenter their own country. 

(7) Germany and Austria will be allowed a delay of four weeks 
to withdraw their tioops and military organizations from Bulgaria. 
The diplomatic and consular representatives of the Central Powers, 
as well as their citizens, must withdraw in this same period. The 
orders for the cessation of hostilities will be given at the time of the 
signature of the present convention. 

(Signed) Gen. Franchet D'Esperet. 

(Signed) Andre Liaptcheav. 

Gen. LouKOFF. 



MILITARY COVENANT REGULATING THE CONDITIONS OF THE SUS- 
PENSION OF HOSTILITIES BETWEEN THE ALLIED POWERS AND 
BULGARIA. 

SECRET ARTICLES. 

(1) The eventual passage of the Allied militar}^ forces over Bul- 
garian territory, as well as the utilization of railways, roads, water- 
ways, and harbors, will be the object of a special covenant between 
the Bulgarian Government and the High Command of the Army of 
the East. Some negotiations to this effect will begin in about eight 
days at the most. They will concern, also, the control of telephone, 
telegraph, and the stations of T. S. F. 

(2) A certain number of strategical points in tlie interior of the 
Bulgarian territory will be occupied by the great allied powers. 
This occupation will be provisional, and will serve purely as a 
guaranty. It will not give way to coercion or arbitrary requisition. 
The General in Chief of the armies gives assurance that unless un- 
usual circumstances arise, Sofia will not be occupied. 

(3) The General in Chief reserves for himself, in case of neces- 
sity, the right to demand absolute cessation of every relation be- 
tween Bulgaria and her former allies. 

(4) The opening of Bulgarian ports to the vessels of allied and 
neutral powers. 

(Signed) Gen. Franchet D'Esperey. 

(Signed) Andre Liaptchew\ 

Gen. Loukoff. 



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